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The Docs with Disabilities podcast expanded into a collaboration with Stanford Medicine and Stanford Medicine Alliance for Disability Inclusion and Equity (SMADIE), previously known as Stanford Medicine Abilities Coalition (SMAC), in 2022. Dr. Peter…

A Tweet from the Docs With Disabilities Twitter account (@DocsWith) that reads: Remember That Hashtags Are Significantly More Accessible for Those Who Use Screen Readers, Have Learning Disabilities, Experience Brain Fog and More When Every New Word…

Med Twitter, named for the hashtag that indexes it (#MedTwitter), is well-known and much used amongst healthcare professionals. A loose online community of healthcare professionals and students, #MedTwitter hosts diverse content: educational medical…

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Docs with Disabilities, along creating a network to increase the visibility of disabled doctors and building a community of disabled doctors where they can connect and support one another, it has also created a podcast hosted by Drs Lisa Meeks and…

Website for the Center for Universal Design at North Carolina State University.

Have you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used an ergonomic kitchen tool? Have you ever used curb cuts to roll a stroller across an intersection? If you have, then you’ve benefited from accessible design—design…

“All too often,” wrote disabled architect Ronald Mace, “designers don’t take the needs of disabled and elderly people into account.” Building Access investigates twentieth-century strategies for designing the world with disability in mind. Commonly…

Image description: The cover of a book, mostly blue with intersecting vertical and horizontal yellow blocks and an uneven circular blob in rainbow colors that resembles refracted light in a soap bubble. The white text reads “Disability as Diversity”…

This book is written for stakeholders such as deans, program directors, faculty, student affairs and disability resource professionals housed in medical programs so that they can engage effectively and efficiently with incoming medical students with…